12 Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mary Chapin Carpenter

American Musician

Born: Feb 21, 1958

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after. Mary Chapin Carpenter

Song Feeling Says Someone Marvelous Because Want After Yours Connected

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium. Mary Chapin Carpenter

Book Song Medium Itself Different Form Translated

About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas. Mary Chapin Carpenter

Age Born About Ten Overseas Moved Where Place

I'm a liberal arts junkie. Mary Chapin Carpenter

Liberal Liberal Arts Arts

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege. Mary Chapin Carpenter

Time Me Soul Heart Every Think Able Record New Make Felt Always Heart And Soul Privilege Just Being Moment Chance

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world. Mary Chapin Carpenter

Myself World Pressure Sense Way Airwaves Having Except Self Never Songs True Feel Like Sort Felt True Self Authentic Wanted Anywhere Them Thing Things Presenting

I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this. Mary Chapin Carpenter

Myself College Think Would Never Allowed Instant Chance

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job. Mary Chapin Carpenter

Job College Thinking Real Real Job Get Get A Real Kept

So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night. Mary Chapin Carpenter

Music Day Home Experience Resume Job Everything Summers Only Had Stuff Came Off Just Clubs Bars Playing Night

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way. Mary Chapin Carpenter

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here. Mary Chapin Carpenter

You Yourself People Dinner Single Reading Living Paper Say TV Eat About Taking Like Know Talking Bed Up Getting Cutting Standing Who Standing Up Even Code Here

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